**Confession, as I understand it, is a thinking mechanism between us and God, though faith in Christ, whereby after our repentance and confession, He is then free to continue our sanctification process and we stop scarring our soul requiring His double work in our thinking processes.
Confession is then a purely private matter between the believer out of fellowship and God the Father, through faith in Christ.**
I think we will have to agree to disagree on this because in doing as you say, one does not know for sure that his or her sins are forgiven.
In the Sacrament of Reconciliation we DO KNOW that God forgives our sins. To me, that is a big difference.
Sure we do, through faith in Christ He acts in us very really and spiritually. Otherwise our faith is nothing more than rationalistic thinking.
I’ll confess through faith in Him 10-40 times daily, sometimes more, sometimes less, but the object is to remain in faith with Him in all things at all times.
1stJohn 1:9
1Jn 1:9
(9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Thanks, #31 intended for yourself.